Grace Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/grace/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 04 Sep 2024 19:14:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Grace Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/grace/ 32 32 86113652 TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/#comments Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:38:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144647 The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind of bellwether for academic supercomputing. …

TACC Fires Up “Vista” Bridge To Future “Horizon” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/09/04/tacc-fires-up-vista-bridge-to-future-horizon-supercomputer/feed/ 1 144647 Los Alamos Pushes The Memory Wall With “Venado” Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/15/los-alamos-pushes-the-memory-wall-with-venado-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/15/los-alamos-pushes-the-memory-wall-with-venado-supercomputer/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:55:31 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143988 Today is the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the “Venado” supercomputer, which was hinted at back in April 2021 when Nvidia announced its plans for its first datacenter-class Arm server CPU and which was talked about in some detail – but not really enough to suit our taste for speeds and feeds – back in May 2022 by the folks at Los Alamos National Laboratory where Venado is situated. …

Los Alamos Pushes The Memory Wall With “Venado” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/04/15/los-alamos-pushes-the-memory-wall-with-venado-supercomputer/feed/ 9 143988 Nvidia’s “Grace” Arm CPU Holds Its Own Against X86 For HPC https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/06/nvidias-grace-arm-cpu-holds-its-own-against-x86-for-hpc/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/06/nvidias-grace-arm-cpu-holds-its-own-against-x86-for-hpc/#comments Tue, 06 Feb 2024 21:24:50 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143603 In many ways, the “Grace” CG100 server processor created by Nvidia – its first true server CPU and a very useful adjunct for extending the memory space of its “Hopper” GH100 GPU accelerators – was designed perfectly for HPC simulation and modeling workloads. …

Nvidia’s “Grace” Arm CPU Holds Its Own Against X86 For HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/06/nvidias-grace-arm-cpu-holds-its-own-against-x86-for-hpc/feed/ 14 143603 AWS Taps Nvidia NVSwitch For Liquid Cooled, Rackscale GPU Nodes https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/28/aws-adopts-nvidia-nvswitch-for-beefy-ai-gpu-nodes/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/28/aws-adopts-nvidia-nvswitch-for-beefy-ai-gpu-nodes/#comments Wed, 29 Nov 2023 04:29:53 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143308 Since the advent of distributed computing, there has been a tension between the tight coherency of memory and its compute within a node – the base level of a unit of compute – and the looser coherency over the network across those nodes. …

AWS Taps Nvidia NVSwitch For Liquid Cooled, Rackscale GPU Nodes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/28/aws-adopts-nvidia-nvswitch-for-beefy-ai-gpu-nodes/feed/ 2 143308 HPC Pioneers Pave The Way For A Flood Of Arm Supercomputers https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/28/hpc-pioneers-pave-the-way-for-a-flood-of-arm-supercomputers/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/28/hpc-pioneers-pave-the-way-for-a-flood-of-arm-supercomputers/#comments Tue, 28 Nov 2023 15:11:03 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143303 Over the past few years, the Arm architecture has made steady gains, particularly among the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …

HPC Pioneers Pave The Way For A Flood Of Arm Supercomputers was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/11/28/hpc-pioneers-pave-the-way-for-a-flood-of-arm-supercomputers/feed/ 2 143303 Nvidia Gooses Grace-Hopper GPU Memory, Gangs Them Up For LLM https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/08/22/nvidia-gooses-grace-hopper-gpu-memory-gangs-them-up-for-llm/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/08/22/nvidia-gooses-grace-hopper-gpu-memory-gangs-them-up-for-llm/#comments Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:53:31 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142793 If large language models are the foundation of a new programming model, as Nvidia and many others believe it is, then the hybrid CPU-GPU compute engine is the new general purpose computing platform. …

Nvidia Gooses Grace-Hopper GPU Memory, Gangs Them Up For LLM was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/08/22/nvidia-gooses-grace-hopper-gpu-memory-gangs-them-up-for-llm/feed/ 12 142793 MGX: Nvidia Standardizes Multi-Generation Server Designs https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/05/30/mgx-nvidia-standardizes-multi-generation-server-designs/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/05/30/mgx-nvidia-standardizes-multi-generation-server-designs/#comments Tue, 30 May 2023 15:36:21 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142466 Updated With More MGX Specs: Whenever a compute engine maker also does motherboards as well as system designs, those companies that make motherboards (there are dozens who do) and create system designs (the original design manufacturers and the original – get a little bit nervous as well as a bit relieved. …

MGX: Nvidia Standardizes Multi-Generation Server Designs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/05/30/mgx-nvidia-standardizes-multi-generation-server-designs/feed/ 4 142466 Datacenter Can Carry Nvidia Through The Rough Spots https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/11/17/datacenter-can-carry-nvidia-through-the-rough-spots/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/11/17/datacenter-can-carry-nvidia-through-the-rough-spots/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:06:56 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141550 After a decade and a half of ceaseless and focused work, Nvidia has created a modern compute platform, and a unique one at that. …

Datacenter Can Carry Nvidia Through The Rough Spots was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/11/17/datacenter-can-carry-nvidia-through-the-rough-spots/feed/ 3 141550 The Art Of System Design As HPC And AI Applications Diverge https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/10/06/the-art-of-system-design-as-hpc-and-ai-applications-diverge/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/10/06/the-art-of-system-design-as-hpc-and-ai-applications-diverge/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:50:28 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141319 Predicting the future is hard, even with supercomputers. And maybe specifically when you are talking about predicting the future of supercomputers. …

The Art Of System Design As HPC And AI Applications Diverge was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/10/06/the-art-of-system-design-as-hpc-and-ai-applications-diverge/feed/ 5 141319 The “Hopper” GPU Compute Ramp Finally Starts https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/21/the-hopper-gpu-compute-ramp-finally-starts/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/21/the-hopper-gpu-compute-ramp-finally-starts/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2022 04:40:24 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141228 You can’t be certain about a lot of things in the world these days, but one thing you can count on is the voracious appetite for parallel compute, high bandwidth memory, and high bandwidth networking for AI training workloads. …

The “Hopper” GPU Compute Ramp Finally Starts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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